The three accused - Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma and Chandra Shekhar Leve - had moved the court for bail on technical grounds. They contended that the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) did not file chargesheet against them within 90 days of their arrest, as stipulated by the law.

Denying bail, however, district and sessions judge Prashant Kumar Agrawal said the accused could not be given benefit on technical grounds.

Moreover, the lower court had not rejected the ATS's request for extending the stipulated period, he observed.

The hearing on the matter had concluded on October 23. The lawyer of the accused argued that the lower court had not given its view on the ATS's request for increasing the stipulated period from 90 days to 180 days. Therefore, they should be granted bail.

The ATS had produced the three accused before the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Ratan Lal Munda on Tuesday for hearing on the chargesheet.

The CJM transferred the case to the court of the district and sessions judge - where it is scheduled to be heard next on November 2 - since the accused were booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code.

Gupta and Sharma were brought from Hyderabad where they have been lodged in jail since their arrest in connection with the Mecca Masjid blast.

The ATS chargesheet against the accused in the two blasts has thrown up an important factor - that Sunil Joshi, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) district pracharak of Mhow in Madhya Pradesh and alleged mastermind of the Ajmer blast, had high connections in the Sangh.

Copies of the diaries were handed over to the ATS by the Madhya Pradesh Police, which recovered them while investigating Joshi's murder immediately after the Ajmer blast.

According to additional director general of the Rajasthan ATS Kapil Garg, the diaries were submitted to the court along with the chargesheet.

Senior RSS functionary Indresh was named in the chargesheet on the basis of a thorough investigation, Garg added.

Page 23 of Joshi's diary carried Madhav's contact no - 9811567067. The contact number of Ajmer office of the RSS, Matri Mandir - 0145- 2420706 - was mentioned against the name of the local pracharak Anil.

A spokesperson of the Ajmer RSS, however, asserted that mere mention of these senior leaders' telephone numbers in Joshi's diary meant nothing as anybody could write any telephone number in his diary.

Additional SP of the ATS Satyendra Singh Ranawat asserted that contents of the diary should not be treated as part of the chargesheet, though the copies of the diaries were submitted to the court.

According to the chargesheet, Joshi was one of the seven men who had allegedly planned the terror acts at Jaipur's Gujarati Samaj guesthouse on October 31, 2005.

The meeting, attended by the two arrested accused Gupta and Sharma, was allegedly addressed by Indresh.